InMotion Hosting vs Bluehost WordPress Hosting

Bluehost vs. InMotion Hosting – Managed WordPress Hosting

Following are some significant differences between Managed WordPress Hosting with InMotion Hosting and Bluehost.

• InMotion Hosting employs NVMe drives on our Platform InMotion servers to achieve faster speeds. Instead, Bluehost only offers the standard solid-state drives on their WordPress Hosting plans.
• We offer Managed WordPress on either Shared servers or fully isolated VPS. In contrast, Bluehost only provides WordPress on shared hosting, making it difficult for growing projects to scale up their resources.
• We use a custom operating system stack, UltraStack, to optimize its web hosting caching system. This system includes NGINX, Redis, and PHP-FPM Handlers.
• We provide comprehensive and time-saving analytics tools to make it easy for you to monitor the health of your websites. Meanwhile, these kinds of tools are missing in Bluehost’s WordPress plans.
• PageSpeed Pros is an additional InMotion Hosting service to help you optimize your WordPress site’s performance. At Bluehost, optimization is up to you. But with our top-tier Managed WordPress Hosting plans, we can audit and improve your website for you.
• We are 100% employee-owned and we own our servers. As a result, we can directly manage server performance to better accommodate changing customer needs, offer more bandwidth, and lock down security.

Read on to learn more about InMotion’s Managed WordPress Hosting features and how we compare to Bluehost. 

Faster WordPress Performance

InMotion Hosting is the go-to choice for fast and performance-driven hosting. The infrastructure of our servers is built to deliver content in milliseconds. Moreover, we ensure all green Core Web Vital scores on our proprietary UltraStack configurations, powered by NVMe SSD storage.

NVMe

We are proud to be an industry leader in NVMe Hosting. NVMe SSD hardware offers faster data transfer rates between storage devices and server hardware. As a result, hosting on NVMe drives will improve the overall performance of your website.

Achieving maximum performance on your website gives you a competitive edge and improves your site visitor experience. NVMe technology allows websites to instantly serve text, images, and files to visitors up to 40x faster than websites hosted on the average SSD or HDD web hosting.

Even so, Bluehost uses traditional SSD hardware for their WordPress plans, making their servers less efficient.

UltraStack

UltraStack is InMotion Hosting’s custom operating system stack, optimized for speed and simplicity. It provides powerful caching options and leverages open-source technology such as NGINX, Apache, and PHP-FPM.

UltraStack intelligently caches frequently used resources and saves them in memory so you can access them faster. Therefore, these caching systems use fewer resources and reduce the load on your WordPress server. As a result, WordPress pages load faster with zero server latency, plus the WordPress admin dashboard is super fast.

WordPress plans at Bluehost do not come with Redis object caching or NGINX. Meanwhile, these tools are built into our plans at InMotion Hosting.

Website Security & Reliability

InMotion Hosting and Bluehost differ in their approach to protecting your Managed WordPress website.

Our Managed WordPress plans include a dedicated IP address, a robust firewall setup, free SSL, and protection from DDoS attacks. Paired with our fully isolated virtual private servers, you can trust your website is safe when hosted with InMotion Hosting.

Bluehost, however, only provides its customers with free SSL and DDoS protection for their shared servers.

Fully-Isolated VPS

Our Managed WordPress plans on Platform InMotion are exclusively hosted on fully-isolated VPS environments. This allows all resources, tools, and analytics to be focused on your website. Whereas, Bluehost Managed WordPress hosting plans are only available on shared hosting environments, jeopardizing your speed, resources, and ability to scale.

Platform InMotion servers are:

• Completely Isolated Containers (LXC)
• Easily Scalable
• Triple Failover Redundancy
• Free of cPanel server bloat

ModSecurity

ModSecurity is a web application firewall (WAF) that protects your website from cyber threats.

ModSecurity’s engine deploys in your web server to detect potential threats. The engine then scans HTTP communications and applies user-configured rules to handle them. Communications may drop, pass, or redirect based on the configured rules set.

Not only does ModSecurity strengthen server security, but it also gives you flexibility and control over

• Real-time security monitoring
• Passive security assessments
• Logging and filtering HTTP traffic

eCommerce Ready

Our Managed WordPress plans are designed to be eCommerce friendly. No matter what kind of online store you run, your WordPress plan was built to deliver fast frontend and backend experience, especially with WooCommerce. At InMotion Hosting, you can expect

• Fully-isolated cloud servers
• Caching profiles for fast load times
• Dedicated IP address
• Free SSL

Developer Friendly

With an InMotion Hosting WordPress hosting plan, professional developers or new freelancers and small business owners get all-encompassing features to customize and integrate into any business-class WordPress hosting website.

Features include:

• Scalable SSD NVMe storage
• SFTP and SSH Root Access
• Dedicated Opcode Cache Pool
• Brotli Compression
• Advanced server caching
• Email creation and management
• Linux platform powered by NGINX
• PHP 8, PHP 8.1, PHP 8.2 and Database access

Agency Program

InMotion Hosting provides a special Agency Program for groups that need WordPress hosting. If you qualify, you get access to a dashboard where you can manage everything, including your team and clients from one place. Additionally, qualified Agencies receive $1200 in free hosting credits with extra discounts for

• Top-tier hosting plans
• Consultation time with our Web Performance Experts
• Extra server purchases

This program, thus, provides Agencies with everything they need for WordPress hosting in one convenient package, with plenty of savings and support.

Excellent Support and Guarantee

Part of our mission at InMotion Hosting is to ensure 100% customer satisfaction. So, we start by offering a satisfaction guarantee on our products and 24/7 support from a team of highly-trained web hosting experts.

Money-Back Guarantee

Our Platform InMotion WordPress plans come with a 30-day money-back guarantee for monthly plans, and a 90-day money-back guarantee for yearly plans. Meanwhile, Bluehost’s money-back guarantee ends after 30 days.

Our industry-leading money-back guarantee reflects our commitment to customer satisfaction. Accordingly, we promise reliable hosting, skilled help, and excellent service for everything we offer.

U.S.-Based Support

All our products include live, 24/7/365 U.S.-based customer support. We keep an eye on your website and data while working on improving your web hosting so you can rest easy.

Our web hosting experts have years of experience. Additionally, all support team members undergo a rigorous internal training program. Training covers technical subjects such as WP-CLI, Linux, NGINX, and more. Then, after 280+ hours of training, our support team is ready to give you top-notch customer service.

Page Speed Pros

InMotion Hosting offers customers a speed optimization service called PageSpeed Pros. Our team of WordPress experts audits your top pages to identify opportunities to improve your core web vitals. Then, we ensure you get the best site performance by helping you leverage our UltraStack VPS technologies to optimize your page speed.

See how we increased site performance for Amacor Printz by 153%, with page speeds clocking in at 3.1 seconds on mobile and 0.7 seconds on desktop.

The PageSpeed Pros service is complimentary to customers on our top-tier plans. We perform the audits, and you can choose to take the wheel or let us optimize for you while you focus on your business. This makes InMotion Hosting a better choice than Bluehost for those who want a fast website hassle-free.

Community Forum

Whether you are a blogger, developer, or entrepreneur, access to a community forum allows you to connect and share your experiences.

InMotion Hosting provides a community forum that serves as another hub for problem-solving. It is a collaborative space where you can find quick fixes to technical issues and overcome challenges. Likewise, our forums help you build a support network with both our experts and fellow users.

Furthermore, the community forum promotes transparency and trust. Customers can discuss their experiences, provide feedback, and offer suggestions for improvement. This direct line of communication helps us, as a web hosting provider, to better understand your needs and tailor our services.

Similarly, Bluehost offers a comprehensive knowledge base of support articles. But, it lacks a communal environment that links you directly to our experts. Our community forums help to foster a strong sense of community and enhance our transparency with you, the customer.

Global Presence

With its global reach, InMotion Hosting can offer superior web hosting services to clients overseas. Customers who have an international presence or target a global audience can benefit from more localized data centers. As a result, these data centers can reduce latency and improve website performance for international users.

Further, GDPR compliance enhances your data privacy and can assist your websites to meet these requirements too.

International Data Center

Both InMotion Hosting and Bluehost house their servers in international data centers. However, unlike Bluehost, InMotion Hosting owns the server locations. This puts us in a unique position to better accommodate our customers.

Owning our server locations gives us complete control to implement tighter security and monitoring to enhance the protection of your data. We can directly optimize our servers to meet our customers’ needs for performance and scalability. Moreover, if a customer goes over their bandwidth, we can accommodate them.

Employee-Owned

As a 100% employee-owned and operated company, InMotion Hosting prioritizes your needs above all else. We base our decisions on what is best for you, without any influence from external stakeholders or focusing only on the bottom line.

Bluehost is owned by Newfold Digital, which owns at least 80 other hosting companies (including HostGator, HostMonster, Network Solutions, and iPage).

By comparison, remaining employee-owned allows us to mold our business around your needs, ensuring reliable services. There is no chance you will get lost in the shuffle as you might with one of Newfold Digital’s 80+ brands.

Switch to InMotion Hosting

At InMotion Hosting, we offer web hosting services that are reliable, fast, and cared for by teams of highly skilled technical experts. As a result, your visitors will have a smooth experience with 99.9% uptime on your website. Plus, assistance is easy to get with our 24/7 support team waiting on the sidelines whenever needed.

If you’re unsatisfied with your services at Bluehost, then it’s time to switch to InMotion Hosting.

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